David B. Kaplan

For David E. Kaplan, also an American particle physicist, see David E. Kaplan (physicist).
For other people with the same name, see David Kaplan (disambiguation).
David B. Kaplan
Born
David Benjamin Kaplan

(1958-07-02)July 2, 1958
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University
Stanford University
Known for
  • The Composite Higgs mechanism
  • Kaon condensation
  • Electroweak baryogenesis
  • Lattice chiral fermions
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics, Nuclear physics
InstitutionsHarvard Society of Fellows, University of California, San Diego, University of Washington
Doctoral advisorHoward Georgi
Doctoral studentsKathryn Zurek

David B. Kaplan (born 1958) is an American physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Washington, where he was director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory during the period 2006–2016 and is now a senior fellow.